1990's Max Power shite

[Felly Magic]

Damn I'd forgotten all about that. Did sun glasses I think?

 

Yup, sun glasses & ski goggles mostly, but back in the day I had Oakley safety goggles for when I was doing angle grinding etc, dad used to half inch em from work

[iainrcz]

We used to go "boy racing" when we were younger.

In our early 20s. Down Cleethorpes sea front.

It usually consisted of standing around till 10/11pm, smoking tabs and watching retards race about.

 

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[Guest Hooli]

I was at cleethorpes last Saturday, it's not changed. They were tarding about at mid day in wank sounding and looking cars.

[iainrcz]

I've not missed anything over the last nigh on 20 years then!

I was at cleethorpes last Saturday, it's not changed. They were tarding about at mid day in wank sounding and looking cars.

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[RoadworkUK]

Project Thunder's three-spokes were Antera Type 109s.

 

Yeah, Max Power was practically gutter level, but it did actually have the occasional highbrow moment.

 

Such as the 'food on the road' comparo write-up, where Adam Rayner (I think) described trying to keep the various layers of Big Mac under control as "a bit like plate tectonics".

[bramz7]

I remember the world cup 1998 issue of Max Power/Fast Car and it being about 50/50 cars and topless ladies. Probably why I still remember it.

 

 

Somewhere I have the last ever issue of Max Power.

[sierraman]

Revs was much better for the lady content. In comparison to what you see on the TV now its mere titillation.

 

The ad pages were always good for a laugh with the unfinished projects.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Reminder:

 

 

All is good, but 18:50 is what you want

[UltraWomble]

1990's you say? 
I was reading Jalopy, UBG and Scootering magazines. Driving a 1.1 Fiesta with XR2 body kit.

[HMC]

I remember buying a few issues. My fave article was where they tried to get the most power for a certain budget. One jouno bought a Nissan Silvia turbo, one a mk2 granny 2.8 and the other an XJS V12. I think there were a series of challenges and rolling road test etc. Anyone remember that?

 

The mod that sticks in my mind was a morette quad lamp conversion, or as my neighbour did on his xr3i a stick on headlight cover that made it look a bit like 2 headlamps but was shit and reduced the light output to dangerously low levels.

[Guest Hooli]

Aye those stick on covers did look shit.

[cobblers]

I remember buying a few issues. My fave article was where they tried to get the most power for a certain budget. One jouno bought a Nissan Silvia turbo, one a mk2 granny 2.8 and the other an XJS V12. I think there were a series of challenges and rolling road test etc. Anyone remember that?

 

The mod that sticks in my mind was a morette quad lamp conversion, or as my neighbour did on his xr3i a stick on headlight cover that made it look a bit like 2 headlamps but was shit and reduced the light output to dangerously low levels.

 

 

I remember both of these!

I found some blue sticky back plastic in the pantry and did a quad headlamp conversion to my mums (white) mk4 escort when I was 12, I put revs stickers all over it and some "HAZCHEM TAKEAWAY" ones that I really didn't understand at the time. She made me take it off after she got a parking ticket.

 

I would 100% put a full size yellow (with blue shadow) max power sticker in my back window if they existed anymore

[cobblers]

In fact, I bought a R5 GT Turbo when I was 15  for £200 out of the ad mag, this was 2001 or so. The bloke I bought it off delivered it 15 miles for £10!

 

It was a phase 1, pearlescent white with a big spoiler on, I think it was a "Skeete" spoiler? Half of the engine was in the boot, but apparently it had once been in a magazine, but they all say that.

The reg was

D321JUG  D123JUG or something like that. Bought it out of the carpark of a scrapyard, what I now now as French Spares at Ranskill.

 

Obviously it just sat on my nans drive for a while until my mate with a renault 5 monaco robbed all the good bits off it then I scrapped it.

[jakebullet]

I remember going to car shows in the max power era, where there always was a shonky trailer thing from alpine? speakers. You are listening to 20,000 watts of pure alpine sound or some such shite. They had two songs, Robert Miles - Children & Livin Joy - Dreamer.

 

For poor boy racers some clever* people had the idea of knocking out !!!pine brand speakers. They where shit but loud, I had some and used to annoy people with my huge choons.

 

What do they do at car shows for youths these days?

[iainrcz]

What do they do at car shows for youths these days?

Discuss car finance.

£100 ford fiestas ain't cool these days.

 

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[Christine]

What do they do at car shows for youths these days?

 

 

 

I went to a vw festival and they blew out a rear windscreen it was so feckin loud 

[overrun]

MISSION ABORTED

 

GONE FOR A SPLIFF

[stuboy]

its not over for me...

[pauldoubleyou]

Eclipse jeans

Saxos

6x9s

Dr Dre

Craig David

K&ns

 

Sums it up for me

 

 

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[cort1977]

I fitted some 6x9s to a three series a couple of years ago.

[Sir Snipes]

When a set of 17s meant you were SERIOUS.

[Crusty Sills]

This thread is making me proper nostalgic!

Going to dig out my Ocean Colour Scene Cd, Kangol track suit top and my bucket hat!!!

[Sir Snipes]

Cav SRi + Janspeed exhaust, Oz Polaris rims, SPAX springs & a KnN = hero.

 

Or Mono Arrows for the true connoissure.

[sierraman]

Three spoke alloys on Xr2is. Sagging parcel shelf with some speakers the size of Leeds. Assuming it hadn't been replaced by a stealth shelf made from 3/4 thick MDF covered in that cheap rough grey carpet you got in offices.

[Sir Snipes]

Three spoke alloys on Xr2is. Sagging parcel shelf with some speakers the size of Leeds. Assuming it hadn't been replaced by a stealth shelf made from 3/4 thick MDF covered in that cheap rough grey carpet you got in offices.

And a turbo bonnet. Or a turbo bad boy bonnet!

[sierraman]

Yes but one of those where you welded fillets over the front of the lights. Black smoked tail lamps. 'No Fear' stickers or Fat Willy's surf shack.

[Crusty Sills]

Fido Dido sticker on the boot lid.

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Those were the days. By the time I turned 17 and passed my test in 2001, I had already been reading the mags for a couple of years as a teen and so had a very realistic* idea of cars and wimmin.

 

My corsa B ended up armed with a pipercross cone filter, four inch chrome tipped cherry bomb exhaust, lowered 70mm on shonky springs with fourteen inch astra alloys to really show I meant business.

 

Inside I had a set of cobra bucket seats that didn't tilt forward, a bright blue steering wheel, Sony CD player with the obligatory 6x9s on the parcel shelf, and a vibe twin 10inch subwoofer box thing with a couple of cheap amplifiers to power it all.

 

To add a little flourish to finish I had a NO FEAR sticker across the rear windscreen.

 

It was slow, noisey and the sound system lacked any sort of quality beyond lots of bass.

 

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[sierraman]

I remember reading about a Sierra Cosworth that someone had chrome plated everything on. Also in vogue was fitting Jetta lights onto a Golf followed by one of those small strips if plastic at the top a bit like the aforementioned bad boy effect.

[fordperv]

Another fantastic memory of loud stereos, one cruise we went to there was an escort van with a bloody loud stereo and some dj decks the guy was mixing away all night

 

As with stereos I think the best one I had was when i put lots of components and 4 12" subs in the boot of a white rover 214si it vibrated your whole body